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Credit where credit is due: Newsom is meeting the moment

Greetings! I’m here on Alameda and Commercial in downtown Los Angeles, near Metro Detention Center. An area wide curfew begins in just over an hour that was just announced. Dozens of people are here. A line of LAPD up front. CHP officers stationed in many many other places nearby.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

If Trump actually had a mandate to do what he's doing we wouldn't have nationwide protests and he wouldn't need the military to silence those protesters

If you're not in the streets, it's YOU who should exert some self-discipline and stop posting bullshit.

Trump and Miller's fascist stunt is going to cost taxpayers *at least* $134 million dollars

LAPD officers bull rush protesters and press, hitting them along the way indiscriminately

Put together a defense friendly criminal justice pack for BlueSky newbies, enjoy! go.bsky.app/3kkyoU8

ICE started raiding the hotel they were staying in - interrogating cleaning ladies Good luck housing ICE agents in Los Angeles now

Protesters sitting in front of police chanting peaceful protest

ICE appears to be staying at the Doubletree hotel in Carson. Multiple ICE vehicles parked.

There’s more chaos during your average championship-starved city’s sports championship celebration than there is in LA right now even with this utterly absurd militarized government presence. This administration is an absolute farce.

Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov and his fellow propagandists rejoiced about events in California, hoping they mark the beginning of a civil war in the United States they've long been rooting for. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWo7...

“We are relieved that David is free and reunited with his family and we are deeply grateful to the hundreds of elected officials, civil rights leaders, labor partners and allies from across the nation who stood in solidarity...” @seiupres.bsky.social, April Verrett's full statement: seiu.co/3ZYw24f

"Were treated like dogs. Theyre making us lay on the floor. Were here to help Waymo" Its ok grandpa. The war ended 40 years ago. Go to sleep

Billie Joe Armstrong Tells ICE to ‘F-ck Off’ in Support of L.A. Protesters

New: theonion.com/protesters-u...

Wait till she sees video of the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade

My full report on the Home Depot raid in Paramount and the ensuing uprising in Compton

6/6/25: Anti-ICE protest outside of Metropolitan Detention Center in Downtown LA following a nearby ICE raid. For @calmatters.org

A brief recent history of Apple user interface principles #WWDC25

I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then I learned that the menswear guy doesn't like violent protests.

the idea of fingerwagging your way into protest discipline is deeply delusional for a number of reasons, chief among which is that the cops' decisions are among the biggest determinants of how protests ago. it's like being perplexed at people for using umbrellas while ignoring the weather

Transformative work of the day:

We're liveblogging WWDC -- as always our updates will come in minutes ahead of the stream! www.theverge.com/apple-event/...

Just to show how completely unhinged this has gotten, Trump is now saying if it weren't for him calling in the National Guard, that Los Angeles "would have been completely obliterated."

Fun facts: Donald Trump was found to have participated in an insurrection by Colorado courts. The14th amendment of the constitution explicitly forbids anyone who participated in an insurrection from holding federal office. Trump is holding office unconstitutionally and should be removed.

When you start critiquing the behavior of the oppressed in service of appeasing their oppressor, you have already surrendered power to the oppressor to set the boundaries of what behavior is acceptable

It's hurricane season. Now is the time to prepare.

Following my reporting that brought this issue to light, Glendale has cancelled their contract with DHS/ICE. Here’s the story that broke it: inadvertent.substack.com/p/glendale-p... Link to Glendale's post: x.com/MyGlendale/s...

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51-year-old man, Alfredo Flores, got caught in tear gas and really suffered. This is what he had to say … ~ @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

GUY WHO, IF PRESSED, TURNS OUT IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO YOUR CAUSE: are you sure *those* tactics help your cause

A guy unprovoked points a gun at you and you're desperately, perhaps even hysterically, trying to get him to lower the gun, meanwhile trying to figure out if you can distract him long enough to disarm him, and then an Atlantic contributor walks in and says "You both need to calm down."